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Clear clipboard on "Show seed & keys" page to clear sensitive info from clipboard #3072

Open garlicgambit opened 4 years ago

garlicgambit commented 4 years ago

Have a simple way to clear the clipboard when the user has copied sensitive information like the mnemonic seed. After pasting the information you want to clear it asap from the clipboard. This can prevent things like accidental pasting in a search engine or online word processor.

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This could also be added to the "Send" and "Receive" pages. As addresses should be regarded as sensitive information as well.

sanderfoobar commented 4 years ago

cross-platform clipboard manager is a lot of work, in addition I'm not sure to what extend it is the job of the GUI to babysit the user.